[Vm-dev] Why the context become a root

[Mathieu Suen]

Yes of course. Thanks for the precision
So all old object that point to a young object should be in the root  
table.
If one of the old object pointing to the young space aren't in the  
root table the vm will probably soon crash. Is it true?

On Nov 19, 2007, at 7:34 PM, tim Rowledge wrote:

>
> On 19-Nov-07, at 10:23 AM, Mathieu Suen wrote:
>
>> Ok so IIRC adding object into the root table that do not contain  
>> young object do not bug the system.
> True - we hope!
>>
>> but every object that contain young object should be inside this  
>> table otherwise the gc crash?
> Not quite - *old* objects that probably contain young objects need  
> to be in the list, which the beRootIfOld: code should hopefully make  
> clear. Young objects don't need to be in the root table because they  
> get scanned anyway.
>
> tim
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	Mth